I don’t know Mike Johnson, the brand-new speaker of the House of Representatives, but I feel as if I do because we’re from the same neck of the woods.
He’s from Shreveport, in Caddo Parish, La., where I was born and where one of my brothers died.
He graduated from Louisiana State University.
to accept one at Grambling State University, a historically Black college about a half-hour east of Gibsland.
He also wrote opinion essays for the newspaper where I cut my teeth as a working journalist, The Shreveport Times.
Persons:
Mike Johnson
Organizations:
Louisiana State University, Grambling State University, Shreveport Times
Locations:
He’s, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, La, Johnson’s, Gibsland, Bienville